- Yury Chaika
Yury Yakovlevich Chaika ( _ru. Юрий Яковлевич Чайка) is the current Prosecutor General of
Russia .Notable cases
On
June 14 2006 Prosecutor General's Office under Yury Chaika reported that it had reopened the "Three Whales" corruption investigation, a case in which nineteen high-rank FSB officers have been allegedly involved in the furniture smuggling cases, as well as illegal imports of consumer goods fromChina . Mass media revealed that the officials dismissed around that time had worked in the Moscow and federal offices of FSB Colonel GeneralSergei Shishin , former Head of the Internal Security Directorate of FSB and current Head of the FSB Activities Support Directorate, Colonel GeneralVladimir Anisimov , former Head of the Internal Security Directorate of FSB, Lieutenant GeneralAlexander Kupryazhkin , current head of the Internal Security Directorate] , Prosecutor General's Office ProsecutorsDmitry Shokhin andKamil Kashaev who had prosecutedYUKOS , head of the department for Investigations of Top Importance CasesVladimir Lyseiko , oversight directorates headsAlexander Kizlyk and Vladimir Titov ] , Moscow Regional Prosecutor's Office, Federal Customs Service and Presidential Executive Office. Deputy heads of the FSB Internal Security Department also figured in the report authored byViktor Cherkesov . The purge has occurred while FSB headNikolai Patrushev was on vacations. [http://www.kommersant.com/p706081/r_500/Property_Fund_s_Confistated_Goods_Dealer_Fired/] , [http://www.kommersant.com/p704751/r_1/Mass_Dismissals_at_the_FSB/] , [http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.html?docId=706135] , [http://grani.ru/Politics/Russia/President/m.114307.html] , [http://rfe.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/09/33cc2719-2ad5-4a45-a326-72828b9baf64.html]On
December 27 2006 , he accusedLeonid Nevzlin , a former Vice President ofYukos , exiled inIsrael and wanted by Russian authorities for a long time, of involvement inAlexander Litvinenko poisoning, a charge dismissed by the latter as a nonsense. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/28/npoison28.xml]On
January 16 2007 Yury Chaika announced that theTambov Gang had recently forcefully taken over 13 large enterprises inSaint Petersburg and was subject to an investigation. [http://news.spbland.ru/i/22598/] , [http://www.gazeta.ru/news/social/2007/01/16/n_1024654.shtml] . The leader of the gang,Vladimir Kumarin was arrested on August 24, 2007. His associate and member of Putin's cooperative "Ozero" Vladimir Smirnov was dismissed from his position ofTekhsnabexport director. [http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/code/54522/]Notes
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Three Whales Corruption Scandal
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